The hyoid bone is rarely discussed, but it a unique part of the human skeleton due to its horseshoe ... part of the neck between the jaw bone and the thyroid cartilage, and is firmly secured ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

The bones are the oldest human fossils discovered in Western Europe, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature. The team uncovered the remains—an upper jawbone and a ...

The face is one of the most distinctive features of vertebrates, diverged widely among species while maintaining a highly complex anatomical structure ... that mammalian jaw bones were directly ...